Disconnection is part of many post traumatic experiences Disconnection • from calm Traumatic events jangle the nervous system, knock the breath out of people, and leave them in a state of high alert – disconnected from the capacity to calm and modulate their responses. • from trust After trauma, the disconnection from a sense of safety

Erratic storage of traumatic memories leaves many people with an incoherent or incomplete narrative of the traumatic event For instance, if several people witness the same traumatic event, they may each relate a different version. Deprived of real memories, the thinking brain spins its wheels in a futile attempt to talk about and understand the